Principal Investigator
 | Jesse T. Ault (CV) Assistant Professor of Engineering
Email: jesse_ault@brown.edu Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jault |
Postdoctoral Researchers
| We are currently recruiting postdocs! Please reach out and contact us if interested! |
Graduate Students
 | Robben Migacz Ph.D. Student Email: robben_migacz@brown.edu Project: Coupled diffusion processes, diffusiophoresis, and ion control in microfluidics. |
 | Jian Teng Ph.D. Student Email: jian_teng@brown.edu Project: Dynamics of finite rods near solid boundaries. |
 | Sichen Liang Master of Science Candidate Email: sichen_liang@brown.edu Project: Microfluidics flows in the Brinkman limit including flow past a backward-facing step and flow past a cylinder. |
 | Haoyi Wang Master of Science Candidate Email: haoyi_wang@brown.edu Project: Vortex breakdown in confined inertial microfluidics. |
Undergraduate Students
| More coming soon! |
Visiting Researchers
 | Zhong Zheng Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Email: zhongzheng@sjtu.edu.cn Project: Healing blister and crack film flows and similarity solutions. |
 | Saebom Lee Ph.D. Candidate Email: leesb@skku.edu Project: Consequences of variable zeta potential on diffusiophoretic transport. |
Current Collaborators
| Sangwoo Shin | University of Hawaii at Manoa (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Yong Lin Kong | University of Utah (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Jie Feng | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Mechanical Science and Engineering) |
| Howard Stone | Princeton University (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) |
| Bhargav Rallabandi | University of California, Riverside (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Amy Shen | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit) |
| Jinkee Lee | Sungkyunkwan University (School of Mechanical Engineering) |
Alumni
 | Theo Fernandez Undergraduate Independent Study Project: Designing and implementing cube satellite communications. |
 | Gabby Shieh Undergraduate Independent Study Project: SBUDNIC structures subsystem design. |
 | Anya Schmitz Undergraduate Independent Study Project: Cardiovascular engineering: Fluid dynamic analysis and the cardiovascular system. |
 | Guillaume Durey Postdoctoral Scholar Email: guillaume_durey@brown.edu Project: Diffusiophoresis via photo-reactive molecular dissociation. |
 | Xinyi Yu Master of Science (Thesis) Project: Vortex dynamics, breakdown, and stability in moderate Reynolds number microfluidics. |
 | Bryan Hong Master of Science (Non-Thesis) Project: OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics simulations of flows past airfoils with temperature gradients. |
 | Sungwon (Bob) La Undergraduate researcher Project: Solute-gradient-induced manipulation of ions via microfluidics. |